Hey Marco Rubio and Glenn Greenwald, This Is the Real Problem With Milley, Trump, & Nuclear Weapons

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2. I recall from my reading of history how German generals

were castigated for "just following orders" and placing their oath of allegiance to a brutal sociopath above any concern for the millions of innocent people he wanted to murder.

That said, our whole "balance of terror" strategy of "mutually assured destruction" remains an existential threat to civilization, right up there with climate change. As long ago as 1962 President Kennedy is said to have remarked how insane it was that two men should have the ability to exterminate hundreds of millions of people at the push of a few buttons.

Also: the 25th amendment should have been invoked as soon as people at the White House insisted TFG had to be tested for dementia. Instead, Dolt 45 went out and bragged about how he'd "aced" a test designed to determine if someone was competent enough to manage their checkbook. And his followers cheered.

That alone demonstrates how fucked we are as a nation.

The part that hits home is at 1:13:24:

Albert Speer: "Field Marshall Milch, do you realize who you're talking to?"
Milch: "Reich Minister Speer, do you realize who you are working for?"